Posted on 02/06/2023 2:52:47 PM PST by conservative98
After the Biden administration reportedly said they would like to brief former Trump officials of three alleged prior Chinese spycraft flyovers of North America, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confirmed he had never heard of such operations while he was in office and demanded answers.
On "The Story," anchor Martha MacCallum reported Biden officials have disclosed three prior flyovers of Chinese surveillance balloons, with the caveat that they were not discovered until after President Joe Biden took office in 2021.
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"I can speak for myself: I certainly never became aware that there was a three-bus-sized floating device coming across our country for five days, either CIA director or secretary of state [and] I've talked to others who are on my teams – They don't know anything about it either," he said.
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"This accusation is deeply dangerous that somehow the military hid from its political command and its political authority information that was vital to American security."
MacCallum later noted that while former Trump Defense Secretary Mark Esper also said he was never aware of the three reported flyovers, two relevant officials who have not spoken out are Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley and Gen. James "Mad Dog" Mattis, Ret., one of Trump's Pentagon chiefs.
Pompeo said neither Milley – who he noted is still in his top military adviser role – nor former Secretary Mattis have spoken out as to whether they knew of the Trump-era Chinese spycraft flyovers.
"I would be shocked if General Mattis knew about it and hadn't shared that with either the CIA director or the secretary of state," he said.
Earlier Monday, House Armed Services Committee member Michael Waltz, R-Fla., echoed calls for Mattis to speak publicly as to whether he had knowledge of the reported flyovers.
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Ooooh sizzle.
If true, the consequences should be extremely severe.
Unlike the Deep State, the corruption in the military is easy to fix : discharge the traitors.
Gee. Really? I am really glad that the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff never went behind the sitting President's back to discuss things with our enemies in Communist countries.
That's a relief. That would be a really bad thing. I'm glad that never happened.
Absolutely, positively, 100% spot one, FRiend.
All I can say is Jesus Christ... I am flabbergasted, to say it mildly...
If the CIA and/or our military kept the flyover of America by 3 high-tech Chinese spy-balloons secret, preventing the Trump White House from knowing anything about it... well that’s an act of mutiny at best... and/or and act of collusion with Communist China at worst.
This is VERY serious.
It worked for Obama. Every bad situation was “Bush’s fault!!” ( Funny. GW didn’t defend himself.hmmm)
Ruh Roh!
We’ve got termites everywhere.
Eerily reminiscent of “Seven Days in May”
So “Balloongate” has become a Trump scandal? Talk about not hiding the agenda and the teams. The media and the deep state (but I repeat myself) should be taking down.
I have never understood why the national security establishment allowed Trump to become president.
They didn’t expect him to win. Very few people in the DC bubble expected Trump to win. The MSM did not expect him to win.
The worst part of this is that after Trump won they concocted the scheme to get rid of Flynn and Sessions. Then the DOJ and the IC did everything they could to get rid of Trump (the Russia collusion delusion) and hamstring his administration (leaks like we have never seen).
The IC and DOJ never accepted that Trump was President. They pretty much did their own thing the entire time and Trump never controlled them before turning over his Presidency to Anthony Fauci.
If you are referring to the time delays before he answers her question, my guess is that there is a time delay in sound equipment/signal. Similar to the “5 second” delay on radio talk shows between when one speaks and when your voice is broadcast.
“ What’s with Pompeo?”
He’s running for President as the deep state candidate.
Like with every other blunder this hopeless, embarrassing excuse for an administration has made, their reaction is…
“B-b-but..Trump!”
This is how these people operate. Nothing honest about any of them.
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What’s really astonishing is how tens of millions of Americans are apparently so brainwashed that they’re incapable of discerning what is so blatantly obvious.
It is alarming to notice how Balloongate and Docugate are treated nonchalantly and are often looked at humorously by the MSM and even by more conservative news services. They are often discussed as if they are matters of little importance and have become the butts of many jokes and sources of entertainment. Little is mentioned that both subjects are associated with America’s national security that could possibly be compromised through espionage and/or treason committed by highly ranked government officials. The possibility of the two nefarious concepts are totally lacking in any serous discussion of the misplaced confidential documents and the foreign sherical spy in the sky.
I have never understood why the national security establishment allowed Trump to become president.
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First they were blindsided, then they mistakenly concluded he couldn’t defeat the Arkansas Skank, consequently they hadn’t yet fully ramped up their voter fraud operation. Don’t worry, they won’t let that happen again!
milly has some splainin to do...
the JCoS need to be pulled out by the roots
“This accusation is deeply dangerous that somehow the military hid from its political command and its political authority information that was vital to American security.”
If three balloons has traversed the US during Trump a lot of folks would have known. NORAD missed something that big? Doubt it.
Mad Dog Mattis says it never happened.
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